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Building Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Institutional Motivations, Adaptive Design, and Partnership Impacts

Sua Kim et al.

Economic Development Quarterly2025https://doi.org/10.1177/08912424251393689article
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Abstract

This study examines how a multicity initiative supporting minority-owned or women-owned businesses organizes inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems to address persistent market failures. Using a triangulated qualitative research design, the study asks what configuration of problem recognition, organizational motivations, and partnering pathways explain engagement, and with what returns. Findings show that organizations participate based on both mission alignment and anticipated benefit, structuring their efforts through existing relationships and coordinated roles across management, capital, and market access. Partnerships serve as delivery mechanisms and as settings for institutional learning, yielding ecosystem level outcomes alongside internal adjustments toward inclusive and culturally responsive practice. The study advances a market failure approach to ecosystem design and identifies the mechanisms that connect organizational intent to sustained engagement. The findings inform flexible design strategies, role alignment, and culturally grounded implementation for policy makers, funders, and ecosystem practitioners.

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@article{sua2025,
  title        = {{Building Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Institutional Motivations, Adaptive Design, and Partnership Impacts}},
  author       = {Sua Kim et al.},
  journal      = {Economic Development Quarterly},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/08912424251393689},
}

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0.37

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
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